Michael Huthmann

Michael Huthmann (born April 26, 1945 in Darmstadt ) is a German dramaturge. Along with Dieter Sturm , Wolfgang Wiens and Hermann Beil, he is one of the great dramaturges of German theater of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s and is a professor emeritus for theater theory.

biography

After studying philosophy, history and literary studies at the Universities of Frankfurt am Main and Heidelberg, Huthmann was chief dramaturge at the Wuppertaler Bühnen at the time of Arno Wüstenhöfer's directorship , at the Frankfurt theater under the direction of Peter Palitzsch, and at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus (director: Volker Canaris ), here also as deputy general director, at the Staatstheater Stuttgart (directors: Ivan Nagel and Jürgen Bosse ) and at the Münchner Kammerspiele (director: Dieter Dorn ). Michael Huthmann worked with him as a dramaturge during Peter Zadek's directorship at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg.

In 1999 Huthmann was appointed to the chair for theater theory at the State University for Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart. His main areas of work were the history of theater and literature, the aesthetics of the performing arts and drama theory and its application as a dramaturgy. He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute for Culture and Technology Research at the University of Stuttgart and the International Theater Institute. Michael Huthmann retired on October 1, 2010.

In the 2005/2006 season he was dramaturgical advisor at the Schauspielhaus Bochum while Elmar Goerden was director . According to theater critic Henning Rischbieter , Huthmann is the “best known stranger of German theater”.

One of the many talents he has promoted is the dramaturge Stefanie Carp , whom Huthmann, in retrospect, describes himself as her “first teacher”.

literature

• Did H. really live? or the art of disappearing. In: Andres Müry: Minetti eats pork knuckle. Praise to the backstage. Fischer, Frankfurt 1992, ISBN 3-596-11376-8 .
• Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, Neue-Schauspiel-GmbH (Ed.): 10 years artistic director Canaris. Documentation in texts and pictures about the work at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus from 1986 to 1996. 1st edition. Enger, Willich-Anrath 1996, ISBN 3-922765-36-X .